Cigar-holder



(ModeL) D. B. JAMES.

CIGAR HOLDER. No. 394,575. Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID BICE JAMES, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,575, dated December18, 1888.

Application filed February 27, 1888. Serial No. 265,985. Model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID BICE JAMES, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCigar-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cigar and cigarette holders, theobject thereof being to provide means for connecting the cigar orcigarette with a mouth-piece having a chamber containing absorbentmaterial which collects the nicotine and prevents it from entering themouth of the smoker.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts,substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is aside View, in partial section, of my improved cigar and cigarette holdercomplete. Fig. 2 is a detail side view of the rubber tube.

Like letters denote like parts in both figures.

In the drawings, A denotes a cigar.

B is the rubber tube, into one end of which the cigar is inserted, saidreceiving end of the rubber tube being split, as shown, for the purposeabove indicated.

C denotes the mouth-piece, constructed in any suitable and desirablefashion, and having a chamber, I). This chamber maybe made in anydesired manner. It maybe simply a holloW cavity in the mouth-piece, orit may be made in any other manner. Said chamber D is filled with cottonor sponge, E, or any other suitable absorbent material. The end of themouth-piece which has the chamber containing the absorbent material isinserted into the end of the rubber tube. Said rubber tube will in thismanner connect the cigar or cigarette with the mouth-piece, and hencethe smoke from the end of the cigar Will pass through the rubber tubebefore it reaches the mouth-piece. Thus the nicotine gathered by thesmoke from the tobacco will be deposited in the absorbent material withwhich the chamber of the mouthpiece is filled.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the mouth-piece C, having chamber D, containingabsorbent material E, and the rubber tube B, having a split end andadapted to receive in one end the cigar or cigarette and in the otherend the mouth-piece, substantially as described.

DAVID BICE JAMES.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN H. REDs'roNE, A. T. DOZIER.

